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Craig and Dr. Kulathinal’s research highlighted in a Discovery news feature looking at animals that humans have inadvertently domesticated! Click here to learn more about these 10 incidents of so called, accidental domestication!

In collaboration with Michelle Thornton (Central High School, Philadelphia) and a previous undergraduate Hadley King, Craig and Dr. Kulathinal’s curriculum on using behaviroal genetics to understand the link between genotype and phenotype was accepted to GSA Prep. This curriculum, designed for intermediate level Biology students, focuses on connecting physical observations with the immense amounts of data available in model organism databases. For more information, check out the curriculum here.

A first live version of flyDIVaS is now available to the public for testing! flyDIVaS is a database aimed at understanding characteristics of divergence and selection in Drosophila and includes full access to new alignments and PAML results for across the 12 Drosophila species originally released by Clark et al. 2007. Check out flyDIVaS at www.flydivas.info.

Craig presents his work on the genomics of parthenogenesis at the annual Drosophila genetics conference in Chicago. In collaboration with Danny Miller (Hawley Lab; Stowers Institute), Craig has been working on constructing the first draft genome assembly of D. mercatorum, a facultative parthenogenetic species, in order understand the genomic mechanisms underlying parthenogenesis.

Craig travels to Hinxton, England to attend the Drosophila Genetics and Genomics course at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. A special thanks to Dr. Scott Hawley and Dr. Casey Bergman for an informative and well organized course.